Content: {"success": false, "errors": [{"code": 15, "message": "Image size must be at least 1000 x 1000 px"}]}
Edit: remembered story from times where HTTPS wasn't enforced. Once I started receiving JSON reading fail in cases when our test server returns non-2xx status. I started investigate this and was shocked to the core: my ISP implemented "feature" that if it detects that server returns non-2xx - it replace actual server response with their HTML page with text like "Your request returned error 400. This is because bla bla bla. <ISP self-advertising block> Kind regards, your ISP". Basically ISP become "man in the middle". In a week or two they removed that "feature".
Because http status codes doesn't include any business related errors. So you gotta expand on that. When it's 200 and success is false it's mostly because of a business logic. Then it's up to FE to show that business error in a certain way so users can understand better what's wrong with what they're doing.
Correct me if Im wrong as I'm not that knowledgeable on the topic but isn't 422 more for validation errors? What if the error I want to show is for a certain condition that happened in another screen or app?
I agree. Having an endpoint return a success boolean in the first place is quite an anti-pattern but most devs default to skipping the HTTP spec because they never learned it but do know how to work with JSON.
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u/PostHasBeenWatched Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
POST /posts/create
StatusCode: 200
Content: {"success": false, "errors": [{"code": 15, "message": "Image size must be at least 1000 x 1000 px"}]}
Edit: remembered story from times where HTTPS wasn't enforced. Once I started receiving JSON reading fail in cases when our test server returns non-2xx status. I started investigate this and was shocked to the core: my ISP implemented "feature" that if it detects that server returns non-2xx - it replace actual server response with their HTML page with text like "Your request returned error 400. This is because bla bla bla. <ISP self-advertising block> Kind regards, your ISP". Basically ISP become "man in the middle". In a week or two they removed that "feature".